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Sonny Bunch

The media-offense complex

Dear god, you would’ve thought that she’d been sexually degraded by the backlash: Musberger was called creepy, the feminists did what feminists do*, ESPN apologized, etc. It was, in a word, absurd. Because you know who wasn’t offended by being called attractive on national television in front of tens of millions of people?

Alabama’s quarterback’s hot beauty queen girlfriend.

She said so herself on the Today Show this morning! She’s an aspiring model who participates in beauty queen competitions for fun! You’re telling me that you need to be offended for her? Get a grip and get over yourselves. Musberger committed no offense, there is no victim in this case, and an apology is entirely unwarranted. The Media-Offense Complex is exposed for what it is: a fraud perpetrated to give professional whiners something to whine about.